EMPRESS EUGENIE'S DREAM.

Dominion, Volume 3, Issue 792, 15 April 1910, Page 3

EMPRESS EUGENIE'S DREAM.

"Le Matin" (Paris) published an interview which the Italian journalist, Signer Antonio Scariogho, Claimed to have had with the JSmpress Eugenie at jSaples. "iietwecn tue past and present^the exEinpicss is 'reported to have.said) there ilre not only iitty years, but quite ten centuries. What can 1 say, and to what purpose? 1 had a divaiu, and it was a great dream lor the country which had welcomed <and embraced me as sovereign. But this.dreain is dead—killed by destiny —and I have wished, and I wish to disappear with it. . I am a poor woman, who has lived much and suffered much. At present I seek peace and quiet and oblivion, in a tranquil corner of the world, with beautiful flowers and brilliant sunrise,' where ■ my soul may be dissolved little by little, ' mingling with sky and sea, thus dying before my weary body; I have loved France too much not to endeavjur vritu all'my stiength to forget her. I am as one walking backwards," she said,'"facing the horizon which ho has already crossed. I have renounced the future. I live in my youth and my past. All else is but a shadow—a dark shadow. I resemble yonder trees. They, too, like myself, live on the remembrance of their past beauty. But they are awaiting the spring, whereas I no longer have anything to expect. Even' my sad winter is drawing to a close. " Women police are to be appointed to the city force by the Mayor of Indianapolis, U.S;A., and will be assigned regular beats. A girl who peeped through the letterbox of a shop occupied by u Chmcse laundryraan at Stockport, suddenly felt a sharp prick and fouud a hat-pin sticking ■in her eye. The Chinaman, who ijias been remanded on a charge of injuring the girl, stated that he had been annoyed by children looking, through tho letterbox l''ortnnatel} the pin missed the girl's eye-ball. •. ■.